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From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
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Subject: Re: 8mm query
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Date: Mon, 29-Jul-85 17:28:45 EDT
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I have seen statements like "8mm will have 50% of the home video market
by <date>" recently. Does this sort of thing mean that the industry
seriously expects that all the people now producing prerecorded
videocassettes in both VHS and Beta will add a third format -- 8mm -- to
their inventories? This seems wildly unrealistic to me.

I keep thinking of 8mm as the "Elcaset of video".... Great technically,
but too late, too much of a struggle against entrenched competitors, and
what is there already can work well enough to fill the need.

I can see 8mm surviving for camcorder-type devices, at about the same
relative level to other video tape formats as microcassettes are to
other audio tape formats. 

But, then, I'm no highly-paid marketing consultant... :-)

Will